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Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
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I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.
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I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
- Courage
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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Writing is a communication.
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No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.
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I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
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My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
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